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Japanese animated tv series (2024; vt Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.; original title Kabushiki Gaisha Majirumie). Moe. J.C.Staff. Directed by Masahiro Hiraoka. Written by Shingo Nagai. Based on the Manga by Sekka Iwata and Yu Aoki. Voice cast include Fairouz Ai, Akira Ishida, Yumiri Hanamori, Hiyori Kono, Rikiya Koyama and Daiki Yamashita. Twelve 24 minute episodes. Colour. / Being a Magical Girl is "a respectable line ...
Duffy, Maureen
(1933- ) UK author several of whose books focus on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced (as he has acknowledged clearly) Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988), and similar later works by Iain ...
Lawrence, Conrad
(? - ) US author of The Council to Save the Planet (coll of linked stories 1994), which dramatizes a Near Future attempt to accomplish the goal indicated in its title through the creation of a Disaster huge enough to give its survivors a second chance to live correctly. [JC]
Xenoforming
A term logically based on the more familiar Terraforming, to denote the (usually gradual) transformation of a world to suit Alien rather than Earth-human Biology and Ecology. / The highest sf drama arises when xenoforming attempts are initiated by Extraterrestrials wishing to transform Earth for their own purposes. The Red Weed introduced ...
Przekładaniec
Polish tv film (1968; vt Layer Cake; vt Roly Poly; vt Hodge Podge). Telewizja Polska (TVP), Zespol Filmowy "Kamera". Directed by Andrzej Wajda. Written by Stanisław Lem, based on his short story "Czy pan istnieje, Mr. Johns?" (1955 Przekrój; in Dzienniki gwiazdowe, coll 1957; trans Peter Roberts as "Are You There, Mr. Jones?", August 1969 Vision of Tomorrow). ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...